I am the Arcane Archer, and all my skills are self-created.

The group headed north along the main road, their destination the teleportation station outside Ironforge territory. From there, they could teleport directly to the outpost on the edge of the Tanaris desert.

On the way, Steel Shield squeezed next to Li Wu, rubbing his hands together and asked, "Guild Leader, are you going to level up alone this time, like last time you did the dungeon...?"

"What are you trying to say?"

"No, no, no, I'm just curious." Steel Shield chuckled. "Last time you were the tank, DPS, and healer all by yourself, we were practically growing mushrooms from boredom. If it's the same this time, I'm afraid all this gear I've been wearing will have been for nothing."

"Don't worry, you've got something to do this time," Li Wu said calmly.

"real?"

"Really! At the very least, you guys should be responsible for picking up the stuff."

Steel Shield's smile froze on his face.

The man beside him, Immovable as a Mountain, coughed lightly, concealing the inappropriate smile on his lips.

As everyone chatted and laughed, they arrived at the teleportation station.

Li Wu walked up to the post station administrator and took out a stack of teleportation scrolls.

"Tanarlis Desert, eleven people."

A blue teleportation beam lit up, engulfing the figures of the eleven people.

The next second, a wave of scorching heat hit me.

Before me stretched an endless expanse of yellow sand, the sky a blinding orange-red. In the distance, massive sand dunes rose and fell, the sand wind whipping up fine grains that stung my face with a scorching heat.

The outpost was a rudimentary outpost, consisting of a few tents and a wooden fence, with several NPC guards dozing in the shadows.

"It's so hot." Steel Shield wiped the sweat from his face.

"Welcome to Tanaris." Hua Zitong looked around calmly. "This is the leveling area for levels 33 to 38, where the monsters are mainly sandworms, scorpions, and sand bandits. Further in, you'll find the entrance to the Zul'Farrak dungeon."

"Which direction is the dungeon in?" asked the unmoving mountain.

Hua Zitong pointed northeast: "After crossing that sand dune and passing through Scorpion Man Canyon, it's about a two-hour journey."

"So now we..."

"Level up first," Li Wu interrupted him. "Going into a dungeon before you're a certain level is suicide."

After he finished speaking, he walked out of the camp's fence.

On the sand dune 500 meters ahead, several dark figures were moving.

Li Wu stopped and looked back at the ten people behind him.

"Keep a close eye on them."

"Lesson One..."

He took the arcane bow off his back, and a ball of dark red energy began to condense on the bowstring.

What is efficiency?

The ball of energy grew larger and brighter.

On the sand dunes, the dark figures noticed the commotion and charged towards them with piercing screechs.

It is a group of level 33 elite sand scorpions, numbering ten.

Ten level 33 elites.

After seeing this, Qixian Liuli murmured:

"Ten elites? This—how many waves will it take to defeat them?"

No one answered her.

Because everyone saw the color of the energy on Li Wu's bowstring.

Dark red.

Moreover, it rotates and compresses rapidly.

A suffocating sense of oppression spread outwards from that energy core.

Hua Zitong's lips twitched slightly.

She knew what was going to happen next.

But others don't know.

Li Wusong drew the bowstring.

The dark red arrow flew out slowly, not fast, but it carried heavy spatial ripples, and the light in its trajectory was distorted.

The arrow landed right in the middle of the nine sand scorpions.

The next second, the world changed color.

A dark red, semi-transparent sphere with a diameter of fifteen meters instantly took shape amidst the sand scorpion swarm.

【Burning Star Returns to Ruins Arrow】!

This is Li Wu's most powerful area-of-effect skill.

The moment the sphere appeared, the ten sand scorpions enveloping it began to emit mournful hissing.

Within the dark red domain, the flame energy multiplied at a visible rate, its color changing from dark red to bright orange, and then from bright orange to incandescent white.

The sand scorpions desperately tried to escape the area, but their bodies were pulled towards the center by a tremendous force, and the more they struggled, the closer they got to the ever-brighter core.

Three seconds later, the domain collapsed inward.

A muffled thud.

It wasn't a booming explosion, but a dull sound like air being sucked out and then instantly filled in.

The collapse ends, and energy rebounds.

A dark red storm of destruction spread outward from the epicenter, whipping up sand waves three meters high, and the heatwave made everyone fifty meters away feel the scorching heat.

Once everything calmed down, only a twisted crater remained on the sand.

All ten level 33 elite sand scorpions are dead!

Not a single one left!

The battle log was frantically filled with damage numbers and kill notifications.

Qixian Liuli opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

Anchor and Bull, standing nearby, were stunned, their eyes practically popping out of their sockets.

"What...what kind of skill is this?" Iron Anchor's voice trembled.

No one answered him.

Even the seasoned Steel Shield and Immovable Mountain were utterly shocked.

Last time at Scarlet Monastery, Li Wu mainly demonstrated precise single-target damage output and operational skills. While those skills were impressive, they were still within their comprehension—it was simply a matter of accurate shooting, quick reactions, and good execution.

But what's in front of me...

This is no longer a matter of operation.

This is pure destruction.

With a single shot, everything within a 15-meter radius was wiped out.

"I'm leaving." Li Wu had already put away his bow and walked forward without looking back.

He didn't even pick up the things that had fallen on the ground.

"What are you standing there for? Don't you want the stuff?" Hua Zitong patted Steel Shield on the shoulder.

"Oh, oh, oh!" Steel Shield finally realized what was happening and ran over to pick up the spoils.

As Zhui Feng walked over, he glanced down at the materials and copper coins scattered in the crater, then looked up at Li Wu's back, a complex light flashing in his eyes.

He was also an archer.

Same profession, same ranged physical damage output role.

But the gap between him and the person in front of him cannot be bridged by hard work.

"Don't overthink it." Hua Zitong appeared beside him at some point, her voice soft. "He's an arcane archer, you're an archer, you're not even in the same profession. What you need to do isn't to catch up with him, but to push your own path to its limit."

Zhui Feng was silent for a few seconds, then nodded.

"I see."

He certainly understood. But the resentment in his heart wouldn't disappear anytime soon.

The procession continued forward.

Li Wu walked at the front, his steps steady and his direction clear. Hua Zitong followed half a step beside him, occasionally exchanging a few words in hushed tones. The nine people behind them automatically formed two lines, like a pack of wolves migrating with their alpha.

After walking for another ten minutes or so, a large black cave entrance appeared on the sand ahead.

Swarms of sandworms, numbering at least twenty or thirty, with levels ranging from 33 to 35, kept pouring out of the cave.

They're all elites!